Synopsis:
The members of the TEAM ASTRO cast were chosen for their ability to play baseball and include past participants in the annual Koshien high-school baseball tournament, thus enabling the portrayal of realistic baseball scenes in addition to the spectaculars stunts taken directly from the manga. For TEAM ASTRO, each game is all or nothing ---- the characters literally play for their lives. But through the such determination emerges the spirit of professional baseball's youth, a time when baseball was still strongly associated with people's hopes and dreams.

Synopsis:
The 73rd NHK Asadora Drama is Kaze no Haruka, written by Omori Mika. The story is on Mizuno Haruka from Yufuin, Oita Prefecture, which is known as a hot spring resort. At the age of nine, Haruka moves from Osaka to Yufuin with her father Yosuke and her younger sister Asuka because Yosuke hopes to open a restaurant in the town. Her mother Yuko, however, chooses to stay in Osaka and the parents soon get a divorce. Yosuke starts running a restaurant but ends up closing it down soon after. Ten years later, Haruka supports her family by working part time while going to a junior college. Worrying about Haruka, Yuko invites her to come to Osaka and offers her a job. Although she has not forgiven her mother, Haruka decides to earn money in Osaka to help Yosuke reopen the restaurant. Through various experiences in Osaka, Haruka gradually understands her mother and grows as a tour planner with her talent for pleasing people. The drama depicts Harukafs struggle to regain family ties and to realize her dream. --- written by groink

Ok boys,
at jdorama we've got a lot of fun quarreling about our interests, projects and so on but IMHO we're losing the main subject - this site rotates around the drama database, the big problem is that the upgdrading of the db is too slow and sometimes ineffective.

for example, this post by Hareluya Boy at Fri Mar 10, 2006 9:09 pm, was unattended...

hareluya BOY wrote:

This drama not in database...

Title: Moudouken Quill no isshou Σ±’NC[ΜκΆ
TV Station: NHK

as written in the faq, to add a new drama/artiste to the database, the way is to send an email to web2@jdorama.com with the details.

I've done this, and I've never had response of any type.

Looking at this thread, there are a lot of posts that give info or images, not used by anyone.

Don't you watch the 15 minute asadoras every morning on CH 18?
Wakaba is showing now. Not a great asadora.... but there have been super asadoras like Churasan (my all time favorite), Honma Mon, Sakura, Kokoro etc.

These are 15 minutes segments that have been showing in Japan for around 50 years or so.... Each asadora runs for about 156 segments and are designed to keep the houosewives happy. They have certain kind of rules. The star is always a female. She is always an unknown. The story almost always deals with a female breaking into a man's world for example: Asuka in which the gorgeous Takeuchi Yuko was the unknown, is the story about a young lady becoming the top pastry maker in Japan;
Honma Mon the story in which Ikiwaki Chizuru becomes the most famous female chef (my second most favorite of all time) etc

These are 15 minutes segments that have been showing in Japan for around 50 years or so.... Each asadora runs for about 156 segments and are designed to keep the houosewives happy. They have certain kind of rules. The star is always a female. She is always an unknown. The story almost always deals with a female breaking into a man's world for example: Asuka in which the gorgeous Takeuchi Yuko was the unknown, is the story about a young lady becoming the top pastry maker in Japan;
Honma Mon the story in which Ikiwaki Chizuru becomes the most famous female chef (my second most favorite of all time) etc

Life would not be the same without asadoras.... yippee

Very well explained, Ralph!

By the way, I heard that there will be a Churasan 4, might as well add it up to the database. _________________

hi, are there any dramas that are worth watching? previously i have watched GTO, one litre of tears and taiyou no uta, both sawajiri erika version.
i would prefer comedy, romance and laughter and school kinda shows like those above.